Re: Adobe Acrobat and its font non handling

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From: Bill Page
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat and its font non handling
Date: 18:36 on 26 May 2006
consider yourself shunned

On 5/27/06, Simon Wistow <simon@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Or, more succinctly, acroread since I have no idea if this is the same
> on Windows.
>
> I have a PDF. Acroread tries to load and then bitches that it doesn't
> have the right font. Not a particularly exotic font - just Times New
> Roman.
>
> I *know* I have TNR installed somewhere because The Gimp and Star Office
> and Firefox can use them but we shall ignore that.
>
> In fact we better ignore that because there's no way to tell Acrobat
> "try looking here as well".
>
> Now, I know the PDF might not render exactly as was designed and since
> PDF is a print layout format I can see why that's more important than in
> HTML but, you know, just this one time I'm willing to let you substitute
> Helvetica or Garamond or Arial because, crazy kook that I am, actually
> care about the content rather than the presentation.
>
> I know, I know. Shun me! I am an aesthetic pariah.
>
> Will it let me do this. No. It displays square boxes for every character
> instead.
>
> Ghostview, btw, handled it with aplomb.
>
>
>

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